Maybe an asteroid hit Earth. Perhaps a nuclear war reduced our cities to radioactive rubble. Or avian flu killed most of the population. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and now the survivors must start again. But how do we set about rebuilding our world from scratch?
Once you’ve salvaged what you can from the debris, how do you grow food and make clothes? How do you generate energy and develop medicines? And once you’ve mastered the essentials, how do you smelt metals, make gunpowder, or build a primitive radio set?
The Knowledge is a guidebook for survivors. We have become disconnected not only from the beautiful fundamentals of science and technology but even from the basic skills and knowledge on which our lives and our world depend.
The Knowledge is a journey of discovery, a book which explains everything you need to know about everything. Here is the blueprint for rebooting civilisation.
It will transform your understanding of the world – and help you prepare for when it’s no longer here.
The Knowledge is a New York Times and Sunday Times best-seller, and the Sunday Times ‘New Thinking’ Book of the Year.
Out now in paperback at all good book stores and online.
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Barnes&Noble
The Knowledge is also available in Translations in a number of in different languages. Listen to a three minute audio description of the book here
8 replies on “The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch”
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“The Knowledge”, is great. I read it twice on loan from library. I just ordered 1 for myself and 1 as a gift. A+
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A wide-ranging and fascinating survey of technology development, slightly disguised as procedures for “re-booting” civilization. Unfortunately, the original development was only made possible by now largely depleted natural resources.
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